From the notebook: California public pension initiative papers

As we reported in today's fiber/cyber Bee, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed on Tuesday filed a ballot initiative language with Attorney General Kamala Harris that would alter California's constitution to explicitly allow public employees' pensions to be changed prospectively.

Until now, most legal experts have concluded that the state constitution protects pensions promised to workers on their first day at work as a "vested right."

Here are the documents that Reed and four other mayors of California cities submitted as a first step to putting the pension measure on the November 2014 ballot:

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